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Callaloo Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2024.a935743

Carla Du Pree

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Where Marva Went, and: Lineage, and: Girl, and: Love Story #1: Notes from the Archivist's Logbook 玛娃去哪儿了？血统女孩爱情故事 #1：档案管理员日志中的笔记

Callaloo Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2024.a935744

L. Renée

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You Are My Sunshine, Helen Juanita 你是我的阳光，海伦-胡安妮塔

Callaloo Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2024.a935740

Aneesah Nu'Man

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Maroonage Tanka, and: Eulogy for Eli Whitney, and: Makeshift Gods Maroonage Tanka，以及伊莱-惠特尼的悼词临时神

Callaloo Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2024.a935737

Chantal James

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The Writer Is Asked Why She Calls Herself Affrilachian 作家被问及为何自称 "阿夫里拉齐亚人

Callaloo Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2024.a935729

Asha L. French

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Contributors 贡献者

Callaloo Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2024.a935749

{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cal.2024.a935749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a935749","url":null,"abstract":"In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:\u0000 <ul> <li> Contributors </li> </ul> TONYA ABARI is a multigenre storyteller, independent journalist, author, and book reviewer. Her words can be found in Essence, Publishers Weekly, Parents, SWING Magazine, Raising Mothers, AARP, USA Today, Good Housekeeping, ZORA, and other places. She has published and forthcoming children's books with The Innovation Press, Mudpuppy, HarperCollins, Penguin, and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Abari is also a teaching artist with PorchTN and is the Books on Books on Books column editor for the literary magazine Raising Mothers. As a Hurston-Wright Writers Week and Carnegie Hall/Roots. Words.Wounds. creative nonfiction alum, her writing often centers on her multifaceted life as a Black woman and mother in the United States. AMY M. ALVAREZ is an Affrilachian Poet, the author of the poetry collection Makeshift Altar, and a co-editor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology. Selected as one of 2022's Best New Poets, her work has appeared in several literary journals, including Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Rattle, Colorado Review, and The Cincinnati Review. She is also a recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, VONA, Macondo, the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts, and the Furious Flower Poetry Center. ARIANA BENSON is a Southern Black ecopoet. Their debut collection, Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press, 2023) won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Leonard Prize. A Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, Benson has also received the Furious Flower Poetry Prize and the Graybeal Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Through her writing, she strives to fashion vignettes of Blackness that speak to its infinite depth and richness. TORLI BUSH is a poet from Webster Springs, West Virginia. They are currently a poetry editor for Heartwood and their first collection, Requiem for a Redbird, is forthcoming in fall 2024 from Pulley Press. JAMES E CHERRY is a poet, fiction writer, professor, literary activist, and impresario. He is the author of four books of poetry, two novels, and a collection of short fiction. His latest novel, Edge of the Wind, was re-issued in 2022 from Stephen F. Austin University Press. His latest collection of poetry, Between Chance and Mercy, is forthcoming from Willow Books. He has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award, a Lillian Smith Book Award, and a Next Generation Indie Book Award. His writing has been published in journ","PeriodicalId":501435,"journal":{"name":"Callaloo","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142182642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Lament for Tyre Nichols 提尔-尼科尔斯哀歌

Callaloo Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2024.a935725

James E Cherry

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I Pledge Allegiance to Affrilachia 我宣誓效忠阿夫里拉基亚

Callaloo Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2024.a935710

Marie T. Cochran

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Summerville 萨默维尔

Callaloo Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2024.a935741

Bryn Evans

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Artist's Statement 艺术家声明

Callaloo Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2024.a935733

C. Choice

{"title":"Artist's Statement","authors":"C. Choice","doi":"10.1353/cal.2024.a935733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a935733","url":null,"abstract":"In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:\u0000 <ul> <li> Artist's Statement </li> <li> C. Choice (bio) </li> </ul> dreaming towards home is a photographic series that visually explores a transitional understanding of where I want to be or to land—a dreaming of possibilities to navigate big open spaces, the outdoors, trees, and access the subconscious layers of being interconnected to the more-than-human world—always understanding that there is still a yearning for culture, for more Blackness. How do I find who I am and who I want to be in relation to these dreams of both/and—appreciating the stillness and isolation, but always remembering the importance of community and the collective? [End Page 102] Click for larger view View full resolution finding place, 2023, archival pigment print from scan of a Polaroid, 6 × 9\", Boone, NC [End Page 103] Click for larger view View full resolution healing space, 2023, archival pigment print from scan of a Polaroid, 6 × 9\", Boone, NC [End Page 104] Click for larger view View full resolution liberation season, 2023, archival pigment print from scan of a Polaroid, 6 × 9\", Boone, NC [End Page 105] Click for larger view View full resolution dreaming towards home, 2023, archival pigment print from scan of a Polaroid, 6 × 14\", Boone, NC [End Page 106] Click for larger view View full resolution do you have to leave?, 2023, archival pigment print from scan of a Polaroid, 6 × 14\", Boone, NC/Charlotte, NC [End Page 107] C. Choice C. CHOICE is a daughter, sister, auntie, artist, activist, educator, dreamer, lover, Black/ queer black sheep, wanderer. Born and raised in Georgia, now living in the mountains of North Carolina, Choice's practice considers the layered interconnectivity of identities and how those weigh up against the environments and systems they move through. Copyright © 2024 Johns Hopkins University Press ... ","PeriodicalId":501435,"journal":{"name":"Callaloo","volume":"173 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142182621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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